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The Effective Manager:
If you’re like most managers, you’ve learned that if you assign additional work, and give it a long deadline, it’s unlikely to get done.
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The Effective Manager:
…the best way to help people improve is by creating short-term tasks.
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The Effective Manager:
Reachable and reasonable deadlines drive behavior better than anything else.
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The Effective Manager:
All the classes in the world, all the books, all the mentors – none of that matters if the behavior doesn’t change.
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The Effective Manager:
Learning to delegate is part of the transition to becoming an executive.
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The Effective Manager:
If you’re a manager, your key to long-term success is to master the art of delegation.
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The Effective Manager:
Delegation… is you turning over responsibility for one of your regular responsibilities… on a permanent or long standing basis, to one of your directs.
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The Effective Manager:
There’s no way you’re ever going to be 100% percent efficient. The in-between spaces represent our natural inefficiencies.
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The Effective Manager:
Don’t ever delegate a new responsibility your boss has just given you to one of your directs. Learn it first, master it, before you consider delegating it.
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The Effective Manager:
In delegating your lesser responsibilities, you ought not to be thinking about yourself.
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